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The EU’s Nature Restoration Regulation: How iDiv supports Europe’s path toward unified implementation

The EU Nature Restoration Regulation sets out clear goals, with a standardised framework ensuring consistency across National Restoration Plans. iDiv’s expertise plays a key role in shaping effective implementation.

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Should we protect non-native species? A new study says maybe

What happens when plants thrive outside their native range but struggle in their original habitat? A new study puts numbers to a growing conservation dilemma.

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ESA’s 2025 Cooper Award honours groundbreaking work on taxonomic harmonisation in biodiversity research

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From the front garden to the continent: Why biodiversity does not increase evenly from small to large

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PartWiss 25 – Call for Contributions

Proposals for sessions and workshops for the PartWiss conference under the motto ‘Researching together – impulses from citizen science, participatory and transdisciplinary research’ can be submitted until 28 May 2025.

The conference will take place from 12 to 14 November 2025 in Leipzig.

Events

sBombus 2 working group meeting

16.06.2025 09:00 – 20.06.2025 15:00

sNEXT 1 working group meeting

23.06.2025 09:00 – 27.06.2025 15:00

sFutures 2 working group meeting

07.07.2025 09:00 – 11.07.2025 15:00

sTREND 1 working group meeting

08.07.2025 09:00 – 11.07.2025 15:00

sIbteds working group meeting

01.09.2025 09:00 – 05.09.2025 15:00

sFragment 2 working group meeting

08.09.2025 09:00 – 11.09.2025 15:00

sSCAT 3 working group meeting

27.10.2025 09:00 – 30.10.2025 15:00

sTime 2 working group meeting

10.11.2025 09:00 – 14.11.2025 15:00

PartWiss 25 Conference

12.11.2025 – 15.11.2025

sARDINE 3 working group meeting

25.11.2025 09:00 – 28.11.2025 15:00

sEXCRETE 1 working group meeting

08.12.2025 09:00 – 12.12.2025 15:00

sMacrobehaviour 2 working group meeting

02.03.2026 09:00 – 05.03.2026 15:00

sRED 2 working group meeting

18.05.2026 09:00 – 22.05.2026 15:00

All Events

Numbers

50,000 sDiv citations – 12 years of excellence in biodiversity research

The sDiv synthesis centre at iDiv has seen its scientific publications from supported projects collectively cited over 50,000 times.

60% of Germany’s habitat types have an ecologically unfavourable status

Faktencheck Artenvielfalt shows the state of biodiversity in Germany.

1,953 reports about iDiv and iDiv research in 2024

iDiv’s experts and groundbreaking research are regularly featured in local, regional, and international media.

Decline of global biodiversity between 2 and 11% during the 20th century

Land-use change was the dominant driver, large multi-model study shows.

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

iDiv is a global leader in biodiversity research.

The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is focused on understanding the variety of life on earth. We measure and monitor how this diversity is changing, and how it affects ecosystem functioning and services.

We are establishing the scientific basis for sustainably managing, protecting, and restoring biodiversity for a more resilient future.

iDiv’s Impact